After exactly half a year (seems to be a pattern already) since the last major release of pgwatch2 Open Source PostgreSQL monitoring tool, I’m glad to announce that another set of useful features and improvements have found their way into the pgwatch2 code repository! New version is incremented to v1.8.0 and content wise it’s mostly […]

The PostgreSQL caching system has always been a bit of a miracle to many people and many have asked me during consulting or training sessions: How can I figure out what the PostgreSQL I/O cache really contains? What is in shared buffers and how can one figure out? This post will answer this kind of […]

It’s been exactly half a year since the last major release of the pgwatch2 Open Source PostgreSQL monitoring tool, and I’m glad to announce that another huge set of useful features and improvements have found their way into the pgwatch2 code repository! The new version is incremented to v1.7 and, continuing the naming tradition, I’m […]

After almost half a year since last updates I’m glad to announce that another set of useful features and improvements have found their way to pgwatch2 – our Open Source PostgreSQL monitoring tool of choice. New version is incremented to 1.6 but continuing the naming tradition I’m also calling it “Feature Pack 5” as it’s […]

I could make good use of the “slow time” around the turn of the year and managed to push out another set of features for our Open Source PostgreSQL monitoring tool called pgwatch2 – so a quick overview on changes in this post. Continuing the tradition, I’m calling it “Feature Pack 4” as it’s mostly […]

With summer fading away it’s time to get busy again. During the last couple of weeks, I’ve taken time to work on our Open Source PostgreSQL monitoring tool pgwatch2 and added another batch of useful management / scaling features and some more minor enhancements. Those were requested by a couple of bigger organizations who are […]

The last couple of weeks I’ve had the chance to work on our Open Source PostgreSQL monitoring tool called pgwatch2 and implemented some stuff that was in the queue. Changes include only a couple of fixes and a lot of new features… so hell, I’m calling it “Feature Pack 3″… as we’ve had some bigger […]

It’s been quite some time, since I last wrote about our Open Source PostgreSQL monitoring tool called pgwatch2, but now there’s again a reason for it – it got a lot better again! Changes include multiple new feature updates per requests from users and also some bugfixes. So this is a quick overview of new […]

We have written about our hatchling Open Source PostgreSQL monitoring tool called pgwatch2 some months ago here and here but now I think it deserves another nudge, as a lot of new features have found their way into the code. For our new readers – pgwatch2 is a simple but flexible Postgres monitoring tool, aiming to […]

To follow up on the previous introductory post here on the new pgwatch2 monitoring tool (Open Source project, GitHub link here), we’ll now look a bit deeper under the hood and provide some more info on customization options. Here we still assume the default Docker installation and I’ll first start by listing and describing all […]

Yes – yes, I’m well aware that there’s already a fair amount of PostgreSQL specific monitoring tools out there – see for example see here for a non-exhaustive listing from Postgres Wiki (but there are some more, couldn’t find PgHero). But nevertheless, I was still missing something. I think the main problem that always annoyed me […]